Sentence examples for shell burst from inspiring English sources

At the moment this was mentioned, a shell burst.

"In one battery a shell burst and killed 20, the rest ran.

Suddenly a shell burst close above my head with a frightful crash and I felt a blow just like an iron mallet".

"Tragically one night in September 1917 when in the morass in the Ypres Salient a German shrapnel shell burst over head badly wounding Harry and killing three of his closest friends.

On April 3, 2003, shortly after American troops invaded Iraq, Sergeant Feldbusch was guarding the Haditha Dam northwest of Baghdad when an artillery shell burst 100 feet away and an inchlong piece of shrapnel struck his face.

He had just saved an archive dating back to the 14th century, and persuaded Canadian troops not to dynamite the medieval Steintor city gate at nearby Goch.On 10 March Balfour ventured beyond allied lines with two German civilians to try to protect historic church artefacts and was killed by a shell burst while moving parts of a medieval altarpiece to safety.

"Suddenly the hillside erupted in shell bursts.

The war scenes are especially gorgeous and thrilling, full of billowing flags, flying bodies, spectacular shell bursts, dramatic smoky skyscapes.

Here instead were long, dismal years of attrition symbolised by unknown men in gas masks, fumbling night patrols, the horror of a shell bursting overhead and a horizon limited to bits of no man's land.

A daal chicken curry, the lentils almost melted away into its thick broth, is the ultimate warming winter stew, albeit one freshened by clean shell bursts of cardamom and a liberal handful of coriander.

Not only that, the Ben-Amis live close enough to the action to hear the tank shell bursts and the machine-gun fire that have reverberated across the Jerusalem development of Gilo and the next-door West Bank town of Beit Jala.